Docs show Microsoft, OpenAI called scraping theft

An unsealed motion disclosed internal Microsoft and OpenAI documents where executives described scraping news for model training as an “astonishing theft” and warned it would harm publishers. The documents also showed large drops in click-through rates for affected news sites.

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